Mortasheen - Litterthug

"Rubbish Man"

CLASS: BIOCONSTRUCT

This common living disposal unit can maneuver well on its arms and hands, but may remain in place for years at a time, hibernating in its metallic, chitiny shell until needed. Lacking a true stomach or digestive tract, it digests food directly in its wide mouth, rapidly breaking down even plastics and metals in its salivary enzymes and excreting only an oily brown smog from its cranial pores. Storing excess garbage in its shell to "ripen," it may also chew large handfuls into acidic wads to hurl at attackers.

In the great Garbage Sea, Litterthug may congregate and bury themselves, feeding on the surrounding filth like mussels on an actual seabed.

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I've known for a couple years that I needed a trash-can monster, but didn't start sketching ideas until months ago. It went through a huge number of revisions, including sludgy forms and forms comprised of garbage, but I kind of have enough of those. I ultimately went with a simple humanoid in a can, but combining the lid and the face was a last-minute idea.

Those arms and hands gave me so much trouble, and I'm not really satisfied with them at all. I just can't do the kind of straight-ahead angle I wanted to do for its right arm, and it came out like all the other arms I draw :/